Help - Will these work together?

[stehodges]

Hi all,

Building a new system - am after an Intel P4 3.2 witha decent motherboard with USB 2.0 etc.

Will the following components work fine together? Any opinons or advice would be helpful...


Case Memory Motherboard Hard Drive CPU

Thanks

 

[ag3]

A Prescott, heh?

Everything is compatible, however the URL for the Memory doesn't seem to be working properly.

P.S.: Welcome to the Tech-Forums!

 

[stehodges]

Cheers, Whats the difference between Prescott and Northwood?

 

[ag3]

Prescott is one of Intel's new cores which is built for supporting higher frequencies. They get hot... And I mean hot.

 

[stehodges]

Anything i can do to prevent damage then? I presume they are supplied with a heatsink/fan?

They have a 3yr warranty so if damage is caused from overheating they should be covered

 

[ag3]

Whatever method they have for cooling (stock) will be sufficient. However, if you plan on overclocking - I'd strongly recommend looking into something much stronger.

 

[Regulus]

I've got a prescott core...never gets hotter than like 45 C. (at least I think that's about how hot it ever gets)

If I(we) were to overclock, what would be a good fan/heatsink for it then?